What's the most depressing U.S. town you've ever visited?

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Anonymous wrote:Cincinnati

Yup. This. Tacoma, WA was kind of depressing, too.

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I’ve seen a lot and I don’t know!! Maybe Tulsa. Parts.

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Gallup, New Mexico. It's absolutely terrible. Fast food restaurants and dollar stores as far as the eye can see. Poverty, obesity, and not much else.

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Crestwood. Nothing interesting and all the people look like Fat Albert, George Costanza, or the ugly extras from a Tyler Perry movie.

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Anonymous wrote:For me, it would have to be a tie between Utica, New York, and Torrington, CT -- with the NY side of Niagara Falls being hot on both of their heels.

You?

I think the NY side of Niagara Falls trumps both, mainly because it is the frigging gateway to US - so so so damn depressing. DS, who was 13 at the time, and I spent a night in Niagara, Canada on our way back from Midwest to upstate NY. We had a lovely dinner with a room overlooking the falls - gorgeous at night.

Got up the next morning and drove into the US. Even he noticed the jarring contrast, just how utterly bleak the cityscape was. We were listening to "1984" on tape. Sadly so fitting.

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Anonymous wrote:Pimmett Hills

I worked GOTV in Pimmett Hills. Hear ya, but met a lot of nice, new voters.

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Lowell, MA. My parents wanted to go there when we took a trip to Boston. This was in the late 80's. It was dreary and ugly and I cried every day we were there. Maybe it's changed but the old mills were depressing back then.

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Latrobe, PA

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Bristol TN

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Newport TN

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Youngstown OH.

To the poster who said Cincinnati, have you been there recently? The downtown is looking shiny and new.

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Anonymous wrote:Youngstown OH.

To the poster who said Cincinnati, have you been there recently? The downtown is looking shiny and new.

I was in downtown Cincinnati for work (stayed at the Marriott right over the bridge in Covington KY) and didn't have particularly high expectations but I enjoyed my time there. Had some great meals and the baseball stadium is awesome.

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Anonymous wrote:York, PA
Florence, SC

Yes, Florence, SC.

Along with Gary, IN and Detroit, MI.

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Cortland, NY is awful. We had to stay there once for a few days and I just wanted to run far, far away.

On another note, we just had to travel (drive) a lot through NY, PA, WV, and OH and it was just so depressing to see a lot of fellow Americans: overweight, looking generally beaten down, too-tight clothing, tattoos everywhere and I mean everywhere. My husband and I were talking about it and we were both saddened and said, “America is not doing very well, is it?” It was just sad.

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Anonymous wrote:Cortland, NY is awful. We had to stay there once for a few days and I just wanted to run far, far away.

On another note, we just had to travel (drive) a lot through NY, PA, WV, and OH and it was just so depressing to see a lot of fellow Americans: overweight, looking generally beaten down, too-tight clothing, tattoos everywhere and I mean everywhere. My husband and I were talking about it and we were both saddened and said, “America is not doing very well, is it?” It was just sad.

Uh, you could have just spent more time in most of DC and come to the same conclusion. It’s full of fat, tattooed slobs who think some random bling makes them look better - and many of them would rob you blind or kill you in an instant if they thought they could get away with it.